A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.

Eliot Spitzer

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

Elizabeth Edwards

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S. Truman

Pitting your dream against someone else's is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed.

Jonathan Acuff

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

Dorothy Day

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Tony Hillerman

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Lauren Graham

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

Charles Wilson

Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Saul Landau

Conscience is the root of all true courage if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke